page_title: Times Square–42nd Street/Port Authority Bus Terminal station
section_title: IND Eighth Avenue Line platforms
hierarchical_section_title: Times Square–42nd Street/Port Authority Bus Terminal station / IND Eighth Avenue Line platforms
caption_attribution_description: English: Downtown platform at 42nd Street - PABT on the A/C/E.
context_page_description: Times Square–42nd Street/Port Authority Bus Terminal is a New York City Subway station complex located under Times Square and the Port Authority Bus Terminal, at the intersection of 42nd Street, Seventh and Eighth Avenues, and Broadway in Midtown Manhattan. It is the busiest station complex in the system, serving 64,531,511 passengers in 2016.
  The complex allows free transfers between the IRT 42nd Street Shuttle, the BMT Broadway Line, the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line and the IRT Flushing Line, with a long transfer to the IND Eighth Avenue Line one block west at 42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal. The complex is served by the:
  1, 2, 3, 7, A, E, N, and Q trains at all times
  W train during weekdays
  C, R, and 42nd Street Shuttle trains at all times except late nights
  <7> trains during rush hours in the peak direction
context_section_description: 42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal is an express station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line. It is partly underneath the Port Authority Bus Terminal. It has one operational platform level, two offset island platforms, and a long mezzanine. Formerly, it also had a lower level with a single side platform. The upper level, the only one serving trains, opened on September 10, 1932, as part of the city-operated Independent Subway System (IND)'s initial segment, the Eighth Avenue Line between Chambers Street and 207th Street. The lower level opened on August 25, 1952.
caption: Downtown platform
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